Limitations and chances of working memory training

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3175-3180

  Nussbaumer, Daniela ^a   Grabner, Roland H ^b   Schneider, Michael ^c   Stern, Elsbeth ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

inhibition; intelligence; training; working memory

Indexed keywords

CONDITION; HUMAN COGNITION; INHIBITION; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING; MEMORY CAPACITY; MEMORY LOAD; MEMORY TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84957455791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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